"Swedenborg's pamphlets, and later in the novel, the characters actually refer to him as Johnny Appleseed. The residents call the variety of apples ""Blackwell Look-No-Further."" In 2016, the history podcast, The Broadsides, did an episode detailing the life and myths surrounding Johnny Appleseed. Johnny Appleseed John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind,"
"Alvan Wentworth Chapman Alvan Wentworth Chapman (September 28, 1809 – April 6, 1899) was an American physician and pioneering botanist in the study of flora of the American south east. He wrote ""Flora of the Southern United States"", the first comprehensive description of US plants in any region beyond the northeastern states. Chapman is a leader in the fields of hierarchy theory, systems theory, and complexity. He was born in Southampton, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children. In 1830, he graduated from Amherst College with a degree in classics. He moved to Georgia and then Florida where he held various"
"""Flora of the Southern States"", which occurred in 1860. Chapman brought out a second edition in 1884, and a third edition in 1897. Alvan Wentworth Chapman Alvan Wentworth Chapman (September 28, 1809 – April 6, 1899) was an American physician and pioneering botanist in the study of flora of the American south east. He wrote ""Flora of the Southern United States"", the first comprehensive description of US plants in any region beyond the northeastern states. Chapman is a leader in the fields of hierarchy theory, systems theory, and complexity. He was born in Southampton, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children."
"fruit trees were grown extensively in the late 19th century. Dr. Stayman oversaw two orchards containing some 3,000 trees. Dr. Stayman was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania on October 7, 1817. He moved with his parents to Ohio in 1839 being associated with his fathers milling business but meanwhile studying medicine and psychology. In 1849 he was married and established a residence in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Several years later he moved to Abingdon, Illinois, where he practiced medicine. In 1858, he purchased a nursery business, and two years later decided to move to Kansas. The pioneer fruit grower took up residence"
"Arthur Chapman (poet) Arthur Chapman (June 25, 1873 – December 4, 1935) was an early twentieth-century American poet, newspaper columnist and author. He wrote a subgenre of American poetry known as Cowboy Poetry. His most famous poem was ""Out Where the West Begins"". In 1910, Chapman wrote his most famous poem, ""Out Where the West Begins,"". Chapman had read an Associated Press report of governors of the Western States debating where the American West actually began geographically. In response, he hastily composed a poem that celebrated the people and the land of the region. The first of its three seven-line"
"the Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center in Ashland County, Ohio. The Fort Wayne TinCaps, a minor league baseball team in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where Chapman spent his final years, is named in his honor. Chapman was born on 26 September 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts, the second child of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Chapman (née Simonds, married February 8, 1770). His birthplace has a granite marker, and the street is called ""Johnny Appleseed Lane"". Chapman's mother, Elizabeth, died in 1776 shortly after giving birth to a second son, Nathaniel Jr., who died a few days later. His father, Nathaniel, who was in the"
"""Plocamium"", ""Gigartina"", ""Ceramium"", and ""Callithamnion"". Anne Chapman may have played a part in collecting these. Anne Maria Chapman Anne Maria Chapman (13 January 1791 – 12 December 1855) was an English Anglican missionary in New Zealand. She was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England on 13 January 1791. Chapman and her husband gave hospitality to early European explorers passing through on the route between Tauranga and the centre of the North Island. The most notable explorers and botanists who were assisted were John Carne Bidwell, Ernst Dieffenbach, and William Colenso. In the second volume of J.D. Hooker's Flora Novae-Zelandiae (Flowerless Plants,"
"children, Henry and Charlotte. <br> John Logan Chipman John Logan Chipman (June 5, 1830 – August 17, 1893) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan who was most notable for his service as a United States Representative from 1887 until his death. Chipman was born in Detroit, Michigan, and attended the public schools of Detroit and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1843-1845. He engaged in the Lake Superior region as explorer for the Montreal Mining Co. in 1846 and was assistant clerk of the Michigan House of Representatives in 1853. He studied law and admitted to"
"Johnny Appleseed Park Johnny Appleseed Park, including what was formerly known as Archer Park, is a public park in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is named after the popular-culture nickname of John Chapman, better known as ""Johnny Appleseed"", a famous American pioneer, who was buried on the site. Chapman's gravesite is accessible to public view through steel gates. The weathered tombstone says, ""Johnny Appleseed He lived for others. 1774–1845."" It also has a carved apple in bas relief. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The land of the park was donated to Allen County, Indiana,"
"Homer Dwight Chapman Homer Dwight Chapman (October 4, 1898 – April 4, 2005) was an American scientist, scholar, author, and early pioneer in the development of leaf analysis for diagnosing plant nutrition. Chapman was also former director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station and a founding faculty member at the University of California, Riverside. Chapman was born on October 4, 1898 in Darlington, Wisconsin to William Chapman and Finetta Merriam Chapman. He was the youngest of six children, spending much of his time as a young boy along the Pecatonica River. At age 9, the family moved to"
"1924, Chapman published ""The Story of Colorado, Out Where the West Begins"", a nonfiction illustrated history of the State of Colorado. His final book was ""The Pony Express: The Record of a Romantic Adventure in Business"" (1932), a history of the Pony Express. Both books were commercial and critical successes. Arthur Chapman died on December 4, 1935. In 2010, both of Chapman's poetry books were republished in new editions. Arthur Chapman (poet) Arthur Chapman (June 25, 1873 – December 4, 1935) was an early twentieth-century American poet, newspaper columnist and author. He wrote a subgenre of American poetry known as"
"botanist, explorer, and plant collector, founded the garden in September 1728 when he purchased a farm in Kingsessing Township, Philadelphia County. John Bartram's garden began as a personal landscape. With his lifelong devotion to plants, it grew to become a systematic collection as he devoted more time to exploration and the discovery of new North American species and examples. Its evolution over time both reflected and fostered Bartram's vital scientific achievements and important intellectual exchange. Although not the first botanic collection in North America, by the middle of the eighteenth century Bartram's Garden contained the most varied collection of North"
"Maxwell T. Masters, Ferdinand von Mueller, George Nicholson and Charles Darwin. Thomas Meehan was a principal in the saving of Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia, PA. Bartram's Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States. John Bartram (1699–1777), the well-known early American botanist, explorer, and plant collector, founded the garden in September 1728 when he purchased a 102-acre (0.41 km2) farm in Kingsessing Township, Philadelphia County. Following the American Revolution, Bartram’s sons John Bartram, Jr. (1743–1812) and William Bartram (1739–1823), continued the international trade in plants. They expanded the family’s botanic garden and nursery business. Following his father’s lead,"
"John Chapman (priest) John Chapman (25 April 1865 – 7 November 1933), received into the Roman Catholic Church at the age of 25, was a Roman Catholic priest, the 4th Abbot of Downside Abbey of the English Benedictine Congregation from 1929 until his death, an internationally respected New Testament and patristics scholar, a defender of the priority of the Gospel according to Matthew and a spiritual writer enjoying enduring appreciation. He is best known for having founded one of the elite independent schools in Britain: Worth, in West Sussex. Henry Palmer Chapman was born in Ashfield, Suffolk, the son of"
"in 1929. He served as executive secretary to Illinois Governor Dwight H. Green from 1941 to 1949. In 1941 he was appointed to the Illinois Parole Board serving until March 1950. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and served from 1953 to 1961. He died August 17, 1978 in Broward County, Florida and was cremated. John William Chapman John William Chapman (September 8, 1894 August 17, 1978) was the 37th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. Chapman was born in Crete, Nebraska September 8, 1894. Chapman attended Public school in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1915 and"
"Arthur B. Chapman Arthur Barclay Chapman (28 October 1908 – 29 December 2004) was the University of Wisconsin–Madison's ""most accomplished animal genetic researcher."" Chapman was born in Windermere, Westmorland, England. The son of William Daniel Chapman, a physician, and his wife Nora Moss Chapman, Arthur ""Chappie"" Chapman attended St. Bees School until the age of sixteen, when he decided to become a sheep farmer in New Zealand. En route in 1925, he came to the United States, but got only as far as Pullman, Washington, where on the advice of a relative he took a course in animal husbandry at"
"of Los Angeles, William Chapman of Spokane, Washington, and Mrs. L.C. Lantz, Mrs. Charles Lantz and Mrs. Evelyn L. Johnson, all of Los Angeles. He is often misidentified as the namesake for Chapman University in Orange, however, businessman and citrus magnate Charles C. Chapman actually has that distinction. Chapman Avenue, which bisects the heart of Orange, was indeed named to honor attorney Alfred Beck Chapman. Alfred Chapman Alfred Beck Chapman (September 6, 1829 – January 16, 1915) was a Los Angeles real estate attorney and investor. He was one of the founders of the city of Orange, California. Chapman was"
"""The genetics of populations"". Ames: Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, College of Agriculture, Iowa State University, 1994. And wrote several articles of biographies on the distinguished leaders in his academic field, many of whom had influenced him in his own career: Arthur B. Chapman Arthur Barclay Chapman (28 October 1908 – 29 December 2004) was the University of Wisconsin–Madison's ""most accomplished animal genetic researcher."" Chapman was born in Windermere, Westmorland, England. The son of William Daniel Chapman, a physician, and his wife Nora Moss Chapman, Arthur ""Chappie"" Chapman attended St. Bees School until the age of sixteen, when"
"Joseph Stayman Dr. Joseph Stayman was born in 1817 and died in 1903. He was widely known among 19th century horticulturalists in Kansas, and it was through his influence the Kansas State Horticultural Society was organized in 1866. He left the practice of medicine at an early age to specialize in horticultural research and experimentation, developing numerous varieties of apples, strawberries, and grapes in his Leavenworth orchards. His goal was to learn which varieties of apples and other fruits were most suited to the soil and climate of northeast Kansas, the region being one of two in the state where"
"C&O employees who resided in Chapman caught the train as it passed through on its multiple daily runs where they reported to work. Chapman, Kentucky is named after its first settler and prominent landowner David Chapman (1803–1845), a native of Montgomery, West Virginia. Many of Chapman's descendants still reside in the community at this time. Chapmansville, West Virginia, a city located on U.S. Route 119 about forty miles east of Chapman, was established in 1800 by David Chapman's uncle Ned Chapman, as he was its first postmaster and general store operator. The Chapman surname is an anglicized version of the"
"Alfred Chapman Alfred Beck Chapman (September 6, 1829 – January 16, 1915) was a Los Angeles real estate attorney and investor. He was one of the founders of the city of Orange, California. Chapman was born on September 6, 1829, in Greensboro, Alabama. His grandfather, Robert Hett Chapman, was born in Orange, New Jersey, studied theology and was a pastor from 1796 to 1812, at which time he became president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until 1816. His father attended the University of North Carolina. Chapman was a Cadet at the Military Academy at West Point,"
"Paul Wadsworth Chapman Paul Wadsworth Chapman (1880-1954) was an American banker and businessman based in Chicago. He was the founder of the banking firm P.W. Chapman & Co. (formally Chapman, Mills & Co.) in 1912, and was the owner of United States Lines from 1929 to 1931. Paul Wadsworth Chapman was born on December 28, 1880, in Jerseyville, Illinois to Sarah Alvira Landon, age 24, and Theodore Stillman Chapman, age 31. He graduated from Jersey County High School in 1899. After high school, he became a messenger boy at the Harris Trust and Savings Bank. He proudly preserved a formal"
"the loss of chlorophyll and expose the beta-carotenes (the orange color). Apples are not native to North America, but today the North American continent boasts the greatest diversity of apples in the world. Part of this is due to ""Johnny Appleseed,"" real name John Chapman. Chapman spent 48 years travelling all along the American northwest spreading apple seeds and planting trees. While apples come in literally thousands of varieties, the majority of the apple market is based on three: Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and Granny Smith. Ornamental plants can be found in almost any store, and many people have at"
"John William Chapman John William Chapman (September 8, 1894 August 17, 1978) was the 37th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. Chapman was born in Crete, Nebraska September 8, 1894. Chapman attended Public school in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1915 and received a Juris Doctor from University of Chicago Law School in 1917. He entered private practice in Chicago in the 1920s until he moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1941. In 1927, he was elected an Alderman on the Chicago City Council for the 40th ward and served for one term before losing to Joseph C. Ross"
"William Jasper Spillman William Jasper Spillman (October 18, 1863 – July 11, 1931) is considered to be the founding father of agricultural economics. In addition, he is famous for being the only American to independently rediscover Mendel's laws of genetics. William Jasper Spillman was born October 23, 1863 in Lawrence County, Missouri, the eleventh of fifteen children of Nathan Cosby Spilman (b. 1823) and Emily Paralee Pruit (b. 1830). His childhood was spent on their southwest Missouri farm among a large family burdened by the accidental death of his father on July 21, 1871. In his mid-teens, he began teaching"
"John Lewis Childs John Lewis Childs (May 13, 1856 – March 6, 1921) was a horticultural businessman and politician who founded Floral Park, New York. In addition to a widespread reputation for being a zealous ornithologist, Childs is also credited with founding the first seed catalog business in the United States. Childs was born in Franklin County, Maine, and grew up in Buckfield. His career in horticulture began in 1874, when he took a job with C. L. Allen of Queens. Soon afterwards he began renting, then buying land in nearby East Hinsdale, Queens County, near other nurseries. Within five"
"at Maple Avenue and Santa Fe, and devoted the remainder of his life to the development and improvement of various strains of fruit. He originated the Clyde strawberry as well as several varieties of grapes, apples and raspberries. Dr. Stayman studied the drawing of fruit varieties, and his sketches were regarded as extremely precise. These sketches were given to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He was one of the founders of the Leavenworth County Horticultural Society, serving as its secretary for many years. In 1866, with William Tanner, his neighbor on Maple Avenue, he helped organize the Kansas State"
"school in Manhattan. Chapman also taught at the University of Wyoming. In the 1930's and 40's, Chapman also taught art intermittently in his hometown of Morristown. Charles Shepard Chapman Charles Shepard Chapman (June 2, 1879 – December 15, 1962) was an American painter, perhaps best remembered for his landscape of the Grand Canyon at the American Museum of Natural History. Chapman was born in Morristown, New York. He studied at the New York School of Art. Chapman was under the mentor-ship of Walter Appleton Clark and William Merritt Chase. Around 1910, Chapman moved to Leonia, New Jersey, where he maintained"
"John Gadsby Chapman John Gadsby Chapman (December 3, 1808 – November 28, 1889) was an American artist famous for ""Baptism of Pocahontas"", which was commissioned by the United States Congress and hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda. John Chapman was born in 1808 in Alexandria, Virginia. Chapman began his study of art in Philadelphia for two years, then departed for Europe where he eventually spent time in Italy. In 1831, Chapman returned to his hometown of Alexandria, and exhibited his artwork in the nearest metropolitan areas, such as Washington, D.C., Richmond, and Philadelphia. He specialized in landscapes and portraits."
"Frank Chapman (ornithologist) Frank Michler Chapman (June 12, 1864 – November 15, 1945) was an American ornithologist and pioneering writer of field guides. Chapman was born in West Englewood, New Jersey and attended Englewood Academy. He joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in 1888 as assistant to Joel Asaph Allen. In 1901 he was made associate Curator of Mammals and Birds and in 1908 Curator of Birds. Chapman came up with the original idea for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. He also wrote many ornithological books such as, ""Bird Life"", ""Birds of Eastern North America"", ""Bird"
"John Chapman (theologian) John Chapman (1704–1784) was an English cleric and scholar, archdeacon of Sudbury from 1741. The son of the Rev. Walter Chapman, curate of Wareham, Dorset, then rector of Strathfieldsay, Hampshire, he was probably born in 1704, probably at Strathfieldsay. He was educated at Eton College, and elected to King's College, Cambridge, where he became A.B. 1727, and A. M. 1731. While tutor of his college, Charles Pratt, Jacob Bryant, and, for a short time, Horace Walpole were amongst his pupils. Chapman became chaplain to Archbishop John Potter, and was made, in 1739, rector of Aldington, Kent, with"
"military, returned in 1780 to Longmeadow, Massachusetts where, in the summer of 1780, he married Lucy Cooley. According to some accounts, an 18-year-old John persuaded his 11-year-old brother Nathaniel Cooley Chapman to go west with him in 1792. The duo apparently lived a nomadic life until their father brought his large family west in 1805 and met up with them in Ohio. The younger Nathaniel decided to stay and help their father farm the land. Shortly after the brothers parted ways, John began his apprenticeship as an orchardist under a Mr. Crawford, who had apple orchards, thus inspiring his life's"
"Paul Wadsworth Chapman died on July 16, 1954, at the age of 73. Paul Wadsworth Chapman Paul Wadsworth Chapman (1880-1954) was an American banker and businessman based in Chicago. He was the founder of the banking firm P.W. Chapman & Co. (formally Chapman, Mills & Co.) in 1912, and was the owner of United States Lines from 1929 to 1931. Paul Wadsworth Chapman was born on December 28, 1880, in Jerseyville, Illinois to Sarah Alvira Landon, age 24, and Theodore Stillman Chapman, age 31. He graduated from Jersey County High School in 1899. After high school, he became a messenger"